5. [How-to] Implement and use Twitter streaming API using PHP

I downloaded the PHP source code and used: https://github.com/fennb/phirehose
Then I uploaded all the folders and files into my PHP server on Arvixe, or you can use 000webhost or x10hosting.

I used the filter-oauth.php file they included as a sample and replace the TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, and OAUTH_SECRET with my own codes from my Twitter developer account.

To get real-time tweets related to specific keywords, change the array of keywords (ie. morning, goodnight, hello, the) to whatever you like in the filter-oauth.php file:
$sc->setTrack(array('morning', 'goodnight', 'hello', 'the'));

To get a random of sample real-time tweets, use the sample.php file and again replace the TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, and OAUTH_SECRET.
To test the real-time streaming Twitter API tweets, open your filter-oauth.php file in a web browser like Google Chrome: http://gerrycao.com/pinkarmr/streaming/example/sample.php

This is my sample.php file:

 <?php  
 require_once('../lib/Phirehose.php');  
 require_once('../lib/OauthPhirehose.php');  
   
 /**  
  * Example of using Phirehose to display the 'sample' twitter stream.  
  */  
 class SampleConsumer extends OauthPhirehose  
 {  
  /**  
   * Enqueue each status  
   *  
   * @param string $status  
   */  
  public function enqueueStatus($status)  
  {  
   /*  
    * In this simple example, we will just display to STDOUT rather than enqueue.  
    * NOTE: You should NOT be processing tweets at this point in a real application, instead they should be being  
    *    enqueued and processed asyncronously from the collection process.  
    */  
   $data = json_decode($status, true);  
   if (is_array($data) && isset($data['user']['screen_name'])) {  
    print $data['user']['screen_name'] . ': ' . urldecode($data['text']) . "<br /><hr />";  
   }  
  }  
 }  
   
 // The OAuth credentials you received when registering your app at Twitter  
 define("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY", "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_OWN");  
 define("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET", "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_OWN");  
   
   
 // The OAuth data for the twitter account  
 define("OAUTH_TOKEN", "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_OWN");  
 define("OAUTH_SECRET", "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_OWN");  
   
 // Start streaming  
 $sc = new SampleConsumer(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET, Phirehose::METHOD_FILTER);  
 $sc->setTrack(array('morning', 'goodnight', 'hello', 'the'));  
 $sc->consume();  
 ?>  
   

Feel free to leave me a comment below for any clarifications or questions or comments.

[Last updated: 5/16/2016]

4. [How-to] Tweet a new tweet or post using Twitter REST api

You will need to create a twitter_post.php file like the one below and upload it to your server.
As for the oauth token and oauth secret, you will need to replace those with the ones from yourself, or with the information you received after the oauth authentication shown in my earlier post: http://leadingtechdonkey.blogspot.com/2016/05/2-how-to-integrate-twitter-into-app-in.html

My twitter_post.php file:

 <?php  
 require_once 'twitteroauth/autoload.php';  
 use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth;  
   
 session_start();  
 $config = require_once 'config.php';  
   
 // connect with user token  
 $twitter = new TwitterOAuth(  
   $config['consumer_key'],  
   $config['consumer_secret'],  
   "REPLACE_WITH_AUTHENTICATED_USER_OAUTH_TOKEN",  
   "REPLACE_WITH_AUTHETICATED_USER_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET"  
 );  
   
 // post a tweet  
 $status = $twitter->post(  
   "statuses/update", [  
     "status" => "@deletrius I posted using Twitter REST API! http://leadingtechdonkey.blogspot.com/"  
   ]  
 );  
 echo ('Created new status with #' . $status->id . PHP_EOL);  
 print_r($status);  
 ?>  
   

Feel free to leave me a comment below for any clarifications or questions or comments.

[Last updated: 5/10/2016]